Planning Control Manager

About the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Planning Control Manager to oversee program planning, schedule assurance, and progress reporting for large and complex construction projects during their construction phase. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Riyadh, and requires a minimum of 10 years of experience. The role ensures project schedules are developed, coordinated, monitored, and aligned with approved milestones, contractual requirements, and project objectives.

Role Context and Purpose

The Planning Control Manager will provide effective oversight of program planning, schedule assurance, and progress reporting. This position ensures project performance is accurately monitored, schedule risks are identified early, and appropriate actions are taken to support the successful delivery of projects in accordance with approved milestones and contractual requirements. The manager will collaborate closely with the project director, construction managers, contractors, consultants, planning teams, project controls, commercial, cost, procurement, and client representatives, providing senior oversight of schedule performance and supporting timely corrective and recovery actions.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall oversight of program planning and schedule-control activities.
• Review and assure the quality, logic, and integrity of the master program schedule.
• Coordinate detailed schedules for construction activities, work packages, interfaces, and key milestones.
• Review contractor and consultant schedules, updates, recovery plans, and progress submissions.
• Monitor planned versus actual progress and verify reported progress against site records.
• Analyze critical paths, float, constraints, dependencies, and schedule trends.
• Track key milestones and identify risks that may affect project completion.
• Provide early warnings of potential delays, slippage, and performance issues.
• Assess the schedule impact of changes, variations, design revisions, procurement delays, and construction issues.
• Support the development and monitoring of recovery and mitigation plans.
• Lead schedule review meetings with contractors, consultants, and project teams.
• Prepare and review weekly, monthly, and executive progress reports.
• Develop progress dashboards, milestone reports, performance indicators, and management presentations.
• Coordinate with cost and commercial teams to align schedule progress with project costs and forecasts.
• Ensure approved changes are properly incorporated into project schedules and baselines.
• Support delay analysis, time-impact assessments, and extension-of-time evaluations.
• Coordinate interfaces between contractors, consultants, authorities, utilities, and other stakeholders.
• Provide guidance to planning engineers and promote consistent planning and reporting procedures.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in program planning, schedule assurance, and progress reporting for large and complex construction projects.
• Demonstrated ability to oversee project schedules, identify potential delays, and support corrective actions.
• Experience working with project directors, construction managers, contractors, consultants, and client representatives.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, within a dynamic environment focused on delivering large-scale construction projects.